OTTAWA, ON / ACCESSWIRE / October 7, 2019 / Tonight's English-language federal leaders' debate, produced by the Canadian Debate Production Partnership (CDPP), will begin at 7 p.m. ET at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec.

The debate will cover five topics (in alphabetical order):

Affordability and economic insecurity

Environment and energy

Indigenous issues

Leadership, in Canada and on the world stage

Polarization, human rights and immigration

The format of the debate includes five segments, each corresponding to one of the five themes. All five segments will include all of the following four elements:

Question from a Canadian

Question from a moderator

Question from one leader to another

Leader-to-leader debate

In September, Canadians were invited to submit questions for the federal leaders' debates; in English, approximately 7200 questions were submitted by almost 4000 people.

The format of tonight's two-hour, commercial-free debate aims to provide equal speaking time for each of the six leaders invited by the Leaders' Debates Commission: Justin Trudeau (Liberal Party of Canada), Andrew Scheer (Conservative Party of Canada), Jagmeet Singh (New Democratic Party), Yves-François Blanchet (Bloc Québécois), Elizabeth May (Green Party of Canada), and Maxime Bernier (People's Party of Canada).

At a news conference on Monday, September 30, representatives from the six political parties took part in random draws to determine the following: dressing room location, time of advance visit to the venue, on-stage lectern position, order of questioning during the debate, and order of arrival at the venue (which corresponds to the order of the post-debate press conferences and departure from the venue).

Tonight's debate will air live across various platforms.

Stream online:

aol.ca

ca.yahoo.com

cbcnews.ca

ctvnews.ca

Facebook

globalnews.ca

huﬀingtonpost.ca

omnitv.ca

quebec.huffingtonpost.ca

reuters.tv

radio-canada.ca

thestar.com

Twitter

YouTube

Watch on television:

APTN

BNN Bloomberg

Cable 14 - Hamilton

CBC

CBC News Network

CHCH-TV

CP24

CPAC

CSPAN

CTV

CTV News Channel

Global

ICI RDI

OMNI

Listen on radio:

CBC Radio One

Global News Radio Network

Accessible formats:

ASL

Closed Captioning

Described video

LSQ

Languages:

English

French

Arabic

Cantonese

Inuktitut

Italian

Mandarin

Ojibwe

Plains Cree

Punjabi

The CDPP is ensuring that tonight's debate is:

Free to stream and broadcast in its entirety, with video streams on demand after the debate.

Widely distributed on digital platforms, television, and radio, to ensure access to a broad cross-section of Canadians across the country, on the platform of their choice.

Available in ASL, Closed Captioning, Described Video, and LSQ. These debates will be available on CBC Gem and Tou.TV.

Available in English, French, Arabic, Cantonese, Italian, Mandarin, and Punjabi. These debates will be carried on OMNI Television.

Available in Inuktitut, Ojibwe, and Plains Cree. These debates will be carried on CBC Gem and APTN.

Available on third-party platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube through our partner organizations.

In May, the Leaders' Debate Commission issued a request for proposal, seeking bidders to produce the English and French debates. Nine media outlets formed the Canadian Debate Production Partnership (CDPP) and won the contract to produce the two debates.